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- By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
- Journal · 49 recommendations
- When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 16 recommendations
- Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- Journal · 14 recommendations
- Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...
- By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
- Journal · 7 recommendations
- Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...
- By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...
- By Rj · Posted October 2, 2008
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I just stopped myself from replying to a post regarding caregiver resentment for cancer patients, and it's acceptance! I feel this is a 'open wound' subject that 'we' should discuss with a broad range ...
- By tammysci · Posted September 26, 2008
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- Have you ever noticed that when you are in a wheelchair, people just stop and stare? I always notice people staring at me when I am taking apart my wheelchair and putting it in my car. I also notice it ...
- By hopeful3 · Posted April 28, 2008
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I do not ask to walk a smooth path nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock-strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, and transform each ...
- By hopeful3 · Posted April 26, 2008
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go . Abraham Lincoln ...
- By tammysci · Posted November 25, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- This past week I was reminded that I have a lot to be thankful for, and especially since it is almost Thanksgiving. Out of nowhere I received a letter in the mail announcing that a health professional ...
- By tammysci · Posted November 13, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- In the last couple of months people have asked me what I miss about my life before my injury. The answer is everything! How could I not miss things, it changed everything about how I thought my future ...
- By tammysci · Posted October 8, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- I have read many different blogs from people with various disabilities about their frustrations with people who abuse handicap parking. I have wanted to start a handicap parking enforcement program for ...
- By tammysci · Posted September 24, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Does anyone ever get tired of fighting for your rights that we are entitled to, for wheelchair access to public places? I know this is just one of many things that the American with Disabilities Act covers ...
- By Rj · Posted November 8, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- My friend, who was like a brother to me, was diagnosed with renal cell cancer, died yesterday. He was diagnosed last July and went so fast I and his family are stunned. And I know this is just the beginning ...
- By tammysci · Posted November 3, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- When you use a wheelchair it can be hard to find accessible apartments and housing. Over the last 10 years, I have always been someone that rented an apartment and at one time I even had a small house ...
- By tammysci · Posted October 22, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I know that stem cell research is a very controversial subject among people with disabilities, but I was forwarded this link on the candidate’s views on Stem Cell Research. If you are not informed on ...
- By tammysci · Posted October 20, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- According to a website on the census of how many people have disabilities of some sort in the United States; are about 58 million people. With that amount of people affected by disabilities in the United ...
- By tammysci · Posted October 6, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- When I was first injured, it took 6 months for me to connect with another female in a wheelchair to ask her women related issues about spinal cord injury. This happens to a lot to newly injured women ...
- By tammysci · Posted September 30, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- For years I have always tried so hard to be very careful about not running over people’s feet in my wheelchair, especially their toes. Heck, if it happens, I will always feel bad. I feel like I need to ...
- By gracie62 · Posted September 21, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- This will be my last entry about Hurricane Ike. It will contain facts, observations, a dose of humor and end with the grieving I am experiencing. My heart has broken all over again. This post may be long ...
